Conversion of puerarin into its 7-O-glycoside derivatives by Microbacterium oxydans (CGMCC 1788) to improve its water solubility and pharmacokinetic properties

Appl Microbiol Biotechnol. 2008 Dec;81(4):647-57. doi: 10.1007/s00253-008-1683-z. Epub 2008 Sep 16.

Abstract

Microbacterium oxydans strain NJ 6 isolated from soil samples converted puerarin into two novel compounds, puerarin-7-O-glucoside and puerarin-7-O-isomaltoside, via an unreported O-glycosylation of the phenolic hydroxyl group at the 7-position of puerarin. Sucrose, maltotriose, and maltose could be used as glucosyl donors for glycosylation of puerarin, but uridine-diphosphate glucose, glucose, fructose, lactose, cyclodextrin, and starch could not. Regardless of the position of B-ring in the (iso)flavonoids core structure, the glycosylation of the phenolic hydroxyl group at the 7-position of (iso)flavonoids was governed by the presence or absence of a glucosyl residue at 8-C. The apparent solubility of puerarin-7-O-glucoside and puerarin-7-O-isomaltoside was approximately 18 and 100 times that of natural puerarin, respectively. Like parent puerarin, puerarin-7-O-glucoside maintained its physiological ability to relax the contractions of isolated rat thoracic aortic rings in vitro induced by phenylephrine. However, puerarin-7-O-glucoside was able to maintain higher plasma concentrations and have a longer mean residence time in the blood than the parent puerarin.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Actinomycetales / chemistry
  • Actinomycetales / isolation & purification
  • Actinomycetales / metabolism*
  • Animals
  • Aorta, Thoracic / drug effects
  • Biotransformation
  • Female
  • Glycosides / chemistry
  • Glycosides / metabolism
  • Glycosides / pharmacokinetics*
  • In Vitro Techniques
  • Isoflavones / chemistry*
  • Isoflavones / metabolism*
  • Isoflavones / pharmacokinetics
  • Kinetics
  • Male
  • Rats
  • Rats, Sprague-Dawley
  • Soil Microbiology*
  • Solubility
  • Vasodilation
  • Vasodilator Agents / chemistry
  • Vasodilator Agents / metabolism
  • Vasodilator Agents / pharmacokinetics

Substances

  • Glycosides
  • Isoflavones
  • Vasodilator Agents
  • puerarin